The threat landscape is the changing set of threat actors, their motives and the techniques they use. An information security manager must keep an informed view of it, because a risk assessment that was accurate last year may be wrong today. New attack methods, new technologies adopted by the business and changes in geopolitics all shift the likelihood of different events. Emerging risk is a new or changing risk whose likelihood or impact is not yet well understood, which means estimates will be uncertain and need regular revisiting.
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